The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-01

the weathering qualities of the yachts
were seen at once. The Volunteer out
pointed the cutter by nearly two points
and won the race by the mastery man
ner in which she went to windward.
The first TACK, which was q
long one, seven miles, decided vir-
tually the race. The Volunteer beat
to windward of the Thistle in a way that
satisfied all the spectators who knew
anything about it that the American
boat would win. On each tack that fol-
lowed the Volunteer continued to get to
windward and to head as well. The
| Volunteer not only outpointed her rival
but odtfooted her as well. Tack after
tack showed up the same thing, and
tack after tack showed that the sloop was
beating the cutter. There could be no
mistake about il. The Volunteer took
five tacks in reaching the outer
mark, the Thistle required six,
Every time the cutter went about. she
did it sooner than the Shopper A care
full estimate of the time each boat took
to go in the stays was made, and this
was the result, in seconds: Volunteer %.
%. %, 25, %; Thistle 20, %, %, 81, % %.
The wind at the start was blowing
twenty miles an hour. 1t maintained
that velocity all the way in, except dur
ing period of perhaps twenty minutes,
when il let down considerably, during
which the Thistle people claimed
that they were becalmed while
the Volunteer held the wind. Really
the contestants we're equally afflicted.
Tie yachts rounded the outer mark like
this: Volunteer 2.Z6 40; Thistle, 2.4l.0.
The yachts set their spinnakers coming
home, and the question as to whether
the broad cutter could 90 fast enough
before the wind to make the latter's
gain in the windward work was to be
decided. Che Volunteer had the lead
fully two and one-half minutes
when the Thistle rounded, and that was
not diminished very much on the run.
The Thistle was the first to take in her
spinnaker, but the Volunteer folio we'd
suit Immediately. This move was oc-
csssioned by the fact that neither boat
could make the lightship with the wind
aft, and haul up was necessary. On
the run home, the wind let up as well.
1t dropped to ten miles an hour. The
steamboats, had much trouble in
getting back to the finishing line in
time to see the Volunteer success
fully defend the america cup. As
the Thistle round the outer mark that
detained them nearly fifteen minutes,
but once under way for home they
maintained jolly speed and leaving
the Thistle far astern, they got there IN
time TO see the American sloop cross
winner by IL minutes 48M seconds. The
following table gives the figures, in
Guiding six seconds allowance that The
Volunteer had to give the Thistle on the
forty mile course:
BOAT. START. FINISH. ACTUAL CORRECT
TINE. TIM.
Volunteer 1O,4O.5ON 4,22,E 542,5614 5,42,56A
Thistle 1O,4O21 1852 5,545i 5,54,45
On the windward work the Volunteer
beat the Thistle IN 4.49H. On the run
b fore the wind the Thistle beat the Vol
atntesr in 2.54H.
After the race, Mr. Bell admitted that
the Volunteer. with her centre board,
had fairly beaten the Thistle in thrash
ing to wipdWard. He insisted, how
ever, that the courses laid out by the
AmeriCG's cup com mittee were unfair.
He said that he fully expected to win
the inside race, and the triangular or
third race, because he hal no
doubt the Thistle could easily beat the
sloop in running and reaching. MIR.
Bell added that the Thistle was for sale
for $50 OC0, and that if a purse were
offered for another race she would be
entered. He had nothing to say about
the foul condition of the bottom of the
Thistle, to-day, and her designer, G. l..
Watson. and Captain Barr both ad-
mitted that the Thistle had been beaten
in the winuward work, and that the
centre board had largely helped to
do it.
Mr.. Bell correspondent Of the Glas-
gov Herald, says that challenge for
the cup will surely come next year.